Displaying Old Tax Discs

[rattlecan]

Just spotted this in this months Practical Classics Mag, bit odd I thought. I know lots of owners have put 'vintage/classic' style discs in the vacant holder, myself included.
I think you feel a bit hard done do if you actually got nicked, but it would appear you can!

[Rebuilda]

Bummer, i spent hours photoshopping mine, miserable gits....

[taurus]

Let them try.

Many moons ago I fell foul of a nonsense loophole in the poll tax laws and cheerfully agreed to go to trial over it. When they realised I was serious and they would look extremely foolish the whole thing was quietly dropped.

In Chester, where I live, it is still legal to shoot a Welshman who is found within the city walls after midnight - so long as you use a bow and arrow. I do not remember seeing that many dead Welshmen littering the streets.

Silly laws deserve to be broken. It is every Englishman's* right, nay duty, to poke fun at mindless bureaucrats.

(*Insert Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Cornish or Scouse persons of either gender or none and of any religious or political persuasion with or without all their limbs and of whatever ethnic background they choose to be when they got up this morning and of whichever sexual preference seems most fun at the time.)

[Ray Singh]

don't ask why, but my kids put a picture of a cartoon dog in my tax disc holder. No one has ever mentioned it........

[hamps]

What a load of BS, they won't enforce that.

[LowStandards]

There is no such thing as a tax disc now, so its just a picture in your car!

[VIP]

What office junior wrote that particular piece of guff?

It's utter nonsense. Displaying an out of date VED disc wasn't a point endorsable offense even when the discs were a legal requirement, they certainly won't be now.

Don't forget, the last remaining valid discs have only just lapsed, so you think during the last 12 months the police have been pulling everyone with a disc in the window over to check whether it's in-date or not, and therefore whether thaley are committing an offense or not?

View out of the windscreen falls user C&U Regs and MOT Testing criteria. MOT criteria only deals with obstructions and damage in the swept area, and C&U Regs Article 30 states - Every motor vehicle shall be so designed and constructed that the driver thereof while controlling the vehicle can at all times have a full view of the road and traffic ahead of the motor vehicle.

You'd have a very tough time as a Police Officer proving that a 80mm circle at the bottom of the further part of the windscreen from the driver represents a preventing of the full view of the road and traffic ahead.

There have been no amendments to the C&U Regs either since the abolishment of VED discs to take this into account, so I can't see which Law they'd be able to prosecute you with failing to obey.

I'd be writing to the mag asking them to cite reference for that 'story'. More often than not, articles with no reference to actual official sources aren't worth the paper they're printed on.

[ratchart]

Don't want to spoil a good rant but is there any actual proof of people being fined for displaying an old tax disk now, or is it just the usual produce of the rumour mill?
I would have thought that an old tax disk now has no legal status therefore it's no different to any other sticker/badge you may have in a window, be that a club logo, works car park pass or similar.
If the disc wasn't considered to be an obstruction when it was a legal requirement then surely they would have to specifically change the law now which doesn't tally with the idea of "outdated tax disc laws" in my mind.

[ratchart]

Slow posting my reply, VIP has said it all much better than me.

[nomad]

[Deleted]

Complete and utter BS. you can display anything you want as long as its not offensive and its not within the swept area of the wipers.
If displaying a 'tax disc' was illegal because it obscured your view then so would parking permits, fast-pass, operators discs (taxi's) etc.
The person who wrote that article needs a slap and the editor need to find another job for letting the story run.

[keithyboy]

What absolute tosh.

[andyf]

Cannot be true. If it is, tough, mines staying in.

[bstardchild]

Nov 25, 2015 23:51:13 GMT rattlecan said:

Just spotted this in this months Practical Classics Mag

Std of journalism has dropped a lot since I last bought a copy!!!!

[fogey]

Oviously a missprint - should be in the 'Dull and not Important' column